| NXT Tag Team Championship | |||||||||||||||||||
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 The current NXT Tag Team Championship belt with default side plates (2017–present) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | WWE | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brand | NXT | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date established | January 23, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current champions | DarkState (Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Date won | October 25, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||
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TheNXT Tag Team Championship is a men'sprofessional wrestling tag team championship created and promoted by theAmericanpromotionWWE. It is defended onNXT, the promotion'sdevelopmental brand. The current champions areDarkState (Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin), who are in their second reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating previous championsThe Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy andMatt Hardy) in aBroken Rules match atHalloween Havoc on October 25, 2025.
Established on January 23, 2013, the inaugural championship team was British Ambition (Adrian Neville andOliver Grey). In September 2019, the company began promoting NXT as its "third brand" when theNXT television program was moved to theUSA Network. Two years later, however, NXT reverted to its original function as WWE's developmental brand. In September 2022, theNXT UK Tag Team Championship wasunified into the NXT Tag Team Championship.
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In June 2012,WWE establishedNXT as theirdevelopmental territory, replacingFlorida Championship Wrestling (FCW). The following year on the January 23 episode ofNXT, special guest andWWE Hall of FamerShawn Michaels announced that there would be an eight-teamsingle-eliminationtournament to crown the first NXT Tag Team Champions.[1] On the January 31 taping ofNXT (aired February 13), British Ambition (Adrian Neville andOliver Grey) defeatedThe Wyatt Family (Luke Harper andErick Rowan) in the tournament final to become the inaugural champions.[2] In the first title defense, however, Neville andBo Dallas defended the title against The Wyatt Family due to Grey being injured, where they lost; Dallas was not recognized as champion.[3][4] On the June 20 taping ofNXT (aired July 17), Neville andCorey Graves defeated The Wyatt Family for the title, making Neville the first two-time champion.[5] On June 8, 2016,The Revival (Scott Dawson andDash Wilder) became the first team to hold the championship on more than one occasion when they defeatedAmerican Alpha (Chad Gable andJason Jordan) atTakeOver: The End.
Although NXT had been established as WWE's developmental territory, over the years it grew to establish itself as WWE's third major brand. This would become official in September 2019 when NXT was moved to theUSA Network, thus making the NXT Tag Team Championship the third men's world tag team championship in WWE along with theWWE Raw Tag Team Championship and theWWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship.[6] In September 2021, WWE revamped NXT and returned the brand to its original function as a developmental territory.[7]
In August 2022, WWE announced that theNXT UK brand would go on hiatus and would relaunch as NXT Europe at a later time.[8] As such, NXT UK's championships wereunified into their respective NXT championship counterparts. On September 4, 2022, atWorlds Collide,Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson) defeatedGallus (Mark Coffey andWolfgang), reigning NXT Tag Team ChampionsThe Creed Brothers (Brutus Creed and Julius Creed), andNXT UK Tag Team ChampionsBrooks Jensen andJosh Briggs in afatal four-way tag team elimination match to unify the NXT UK Tag Team Championship into the NXT Tag Team Championship. Jensen and Briggs were recognized as the final NXT UK Tag Team Champions, while Pretty Deadly went forward as the unified NXT Tag Team Champions.[9]
The NXT Tag Team Championship became the first WWE championship to be defended inTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), whereNathan Frazer and Axiom successfully defended the title againstThe Rascalz (Zachary Wentz andTrey Miguel) on the January 23, 2025, episode ofImpact!.[10]The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy andMatt Hardy) would then become the first TNA contracted wrestlers to win a WWE championship when they won the NXT Tag Team Championship by defeatingDarkState (Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin) in aWinners Take All match, in which The Hardy Boyz defended theTNA World Tag Team Championship, atNXT vs. TNA Showdown on October 7, 2025.[11]
| First Round[12] NXT January 10, 2013 (Aired: January 23–30) | Semifinals[12] NXT January 10, 2023 (Aired: February 6) | Final NXT January 31, 2013 (Aired: February 13) | ||||||||||||
| The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper andErick Rowan) | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Percy Watson andYoshi Tatsu | 4:53 | |||||||||||||
| The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty | 6:11 | |||||||||||||
| Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Primo and Epico | 12:24 | |||||||||||||
| The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) | 15:55 | |||||||||||||
| British Ambition | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| British Ambition (Adrian Neville andOliver Grey) | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| 3MB (Drew McIntyre andHeath Slater) | 8:25 | |||||||||||||
| British Ambition | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Kassius Ohno and Leo Kruger | 16:07 | |||||||||||||
| Kassius Ohno andLeo Kruger | Submission | |||||||||||||
| Alex Riley andDerrick Bateman | 12:52 | |||||||||||||
The original NXT Tag Team Championship belts featured a simple design. The center plate was an irregular polygon. Prominently down the center of the plate was a vertical NXT logo in gold; to the left center side of the logo read "Tag" while the right center side read "Team". The two side plates contained the WWE logo. The plates were on a black leather strap. A unique feature of this original design was that the two belts were slightly different. On one belt, the left side of the center plate was black with "Tag" written in gold while the right side of the center plate was gold with "Team" written in black; the other belt was the opposite. The side plates also reflected this coloring; the side plate on the black side was dominated by a black background behind the WWE logo while the side plate on the gold side had a dominant gold background behind the WWE logo. When first introduced, the side plates had the WWE scratch logo but in August 2014, all of WWE's pre-existing championships at the time received a minor update, changing the scratch logo to WWE's current logo that was originally used for theWWE Network that launched earlier that year in February.[13]
On April 1, 2017, atWrestleMania Axxess, NXT General ManagerWilliam Regal announced that all of the NXT title belts would be redesigned. The new title belts were unveiled atTakeOver: Orlando that same night and given to the winners of their respective matches. Both the center plate and side plates of the new NXT Tag Team Championship belts are the same shape as the previous design and are again on black leather straps. The differences are the design on the plates themselves. The center plate maintains the vertical NXT logo prominently in the center, but now in silver with the WWE logo affixed at the very center of the "X". At the top of the plate right above the vertical NXT logo is a banner that reads "Tag Team", while at the bottom of the plate below the logo is a banner that reads "Champions". Black, silver, and gold ornamentation fills in the rest of the plate. Unlike the previous design, the design does not differentiate between the two championships. Coming in line with WWE's other championship belts, the updated design features side plates with a removable center section that can be customized with the champion's logo; the default side plates feature the WWE logo. As a result, the championship was the first WWE tag team championship to feature customizable side plates.[14]
As of November 23, 2025, there have been 42 reigns between 33 teams composed of 66 individual champions, and three vacancies.The Undisputed Era as a stable have the most reigns at three, while individually, stable memberKyle O'Reilly has the most reigns, also at three. The inaugural champions were the British Ambition (Adrian Neville andOliver Grey). The team with the longest reign isThe Ascension (Conor O'Brian/Konnor andRick Victor/Viktor), who held the title for 364 days,[15][16] while the shortest reign belongs to Moustache Mountain (Tyler Bate andTrent Seven), who held the title for 2 days. However, due totape delay, which are the air dates that WWE recognizes for the NXT Tag Team Championship's history, The Ascension's reign is regarded as lasting 343 days (still the longest) and that Moustache Mountain's reign was 22 days; as a result,MSK's (Nash Carter andWes Lee) second reign of 6 days (5 days according to WWE) is recognized as the shortest. Tyler Bate is the youngest champion at 21, while Matt Hardy is the oldest at 51.
DarkState (Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin) are the current champions in their second reign, both as a team and individually. They won the title by defeating previous champions The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) in aBroken Rules match atHalloween Havoc on October 25, 2025, inPrescott Valley, Arizona.[17]
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